design-handoff-brief

design-handoff-brief is a cursor rule for Cursor from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,143 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured brief that gives a designer the user context and constraints for a feature before design work begins. It can turn a feature brief or PRD, a product requirements document, into clear design requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare design handoffs, brief a designer on a feature, or translate product requirements into design guidance.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings by explaining the user's goal, emotional state, success criteria, constraints, edge cases, and out-of-scope work upfront.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it to prepare design handoffs, brief a designer on a feature, or translate product requirements into design guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/design-handoff-brief
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,352 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 77 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,143 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00077 $0.01143
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00114

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6d8703ea7330, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-handoff-brief scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

exports/cursor/pm-advanced/design-handoff-brief/design-handoff-brief.mdc · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Handoff Brief Skill

Produce a design brief that sets designers up for success — grounding them in user context and constraints before they open Figma, not after they've gone in the wrong direction.

Required Inputs

Ask the user for these if not provided:

  • Feature brief or PRD (even rough notes work)
  • Designer's name or team (for personalisation)
  • Technical constraints (any engineering limitations already known)
  • Timeline (when does design need to be done?)

What Designers Actually Need (and PMs Often Skip)

  • The user's goal, not the feature name
  • The emotional state of the user at this moment in the journey
  • What success looks like — how will we know the design worked?
  • Constraints: technical, legal, brand, accessibility
  • Edge cases that must be handled
  • What we're explicitly NOT solving for

Process

  1. Read the feature brief or PRD provided
  2. Extract user goal (reframe from feature language to user outcome language)
  3. Identify constraints — technical limitations, brand guidelines, accessibility requirements
  4. List edge cases the design must handle
  5. Define success criteria the design should be evaluated against
  6. Write a "not in scope" section to prevent scope creep in design
  7. Validate — Confirm every edge case listed is specific enough to design for, and every out-of-scope item is concrete enough to say "no" to

Programmatic Helper

Contrast ratios cannot be eyeballed. The AA line sits at 4.5:1, and #777777 on white is 4.478 (fails) while #767676 is 4.54 (passes) — no amount of looking at a screenshot separates those. Compute them:

npx --yes notugly fix "#8ab4f8" "#ffffff"     # ratio, APCA, and the nearest passing colour
npx --yes notugly onepager <url> --out review.html   # every pairing, printable
npx --yes notugly vision                      # which colours merge for colour-blind viewers

notugly fix returns the ratio, the APCA lightness contrast, and the closest colour to the one already chosen that passes — same hue, same chroma. Paste those numbers into the tables below rather than estimating them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 110 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 6d8703ea7330

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design-handoff-brief is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,352 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,143 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.